And it's safe to assume that those in power would think longer and harder about launching a war if they envisioned their own sons and daughters in harm's way.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.

Intelligence won wars, not brute force.

When weak, act strong.

That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one.

sorry, luv, all is far in war/

It stands to reason you've got to have a war. Not because anybody wants it, of course, but because there's an army. An army here and an army there and armies all over the shop. Armies is for wars and...

Why are we fighting? We're fighting because we're soldiers. That's simple enough, isn't it? For what cause are we fighting? Simple again. We're fighting to protect our country, and, in a wider sense,...

As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and...

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.

General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity;...

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

Now, during our catastrophically idiotic war in Vietnam, the music kept getting better and better and better. We lost that war, by the way. Order couldn't be restored in Indochina until the people...

War is now a form of TV entertainment

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.